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Hard Rock and Metal releases for Nov 17 - Nov 23

Yer Funeral — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:58 GMT

Well the music industry is moving in to its slow period. Reflected with so few releases this week and how it will likely be until March when things start to pick up for getting those releases out before the Summer tour season. At least all but two of this weeks releases appear in in the marketplace and I am not sure in the Bring Me The Horizon enhanced version will be released in the states since Amazon switched up the info and all available dealers of the album have it listed as an import now. Sorry if I got any BMTH fans excited.

Next week is Thanksgiving week and I am going to be out of town starting Sunday so will try to remember to put together a Saturday post to cover what few releases their will be next week but won't have any marketplace info.

Nov 17-23

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Bring Me The Horizon – Suicide Season (enhanced reissue) (original in marketplace)
Company Band – The Company Band (supergroup featuring members of Clutch, Fireball Ministry, CKY, and others)
Dark Tranquility – Where Death is Most Alive
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Hollenthon – Tyrants & Wraiths
Skitliv – Skandinavisk Misantropi
Swallow The Sun – New Moon

Import now or wait until later to get in US

None of this weeks listed imports had a domestic release date.

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Nov 10 - Nov 16

Yer Funeral — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:46:06 GMT

As far as tracking the Zune marketplace it seems Zune already had some contract in place with Metal Blade' reissue series with Amon Amarth and King Diamond as they continued to get added while new stuff continues to not be added. Since hashing what is happening in the marketplace is so boring and it is such a heavy reissue week I thought I would bring story time to my post this week though I thought the Katatonia and Throwdown are okay while all the reissues are worthy of being reissued. Well maybe not Unearth that album just came out last year!

So, Spring had just turned in 1992. The internet was still used only by scientists and college students. Peoples love of music was so passionate, like video games, that record stores would re-open at midnight (or stay open longer in the case of Tower Records - pour a 40 for them on their grave) on a Tuesday morning. This particular occasion my friends and I had shown up for one of the most anticipated nights.

Were we there to get a little 'Human Touch' from The Boss? No he could leave his album in New Jersey. How about to 'Get Rocked' with a touch of adrenaline from some Brit's who didn't know how to properly spell deaf or leopard? No we were still heart broken by the passing of Steve Clark. We're we hip to a certain French Canadian before she changed the world by covering a Dolly Parton tune for a movie we didn't want to see because we already knew how it ended? Maybe if it had been done in Dolly' original style or like Wanda Jackson; maybe.

We were there to be a thorn in the craw of record store clerks who had piles of these albums ready to go out the door. Our intention though was to make them go into the back and extend their bed times by making them dig for albums no one wanted but us. In this case one of them was one of this weeks reissues. AN album from the best selling band out of Antarctica (well they are really from Virginia), Gwar.

Why Metal Blade has chosen to go with this album rather then 'Scumdogs of The Universe' seems silly because 2010 is the 20th anniversary of their Metal Blade debut. Strangely enough about 6 months later America would feel destroyed by an album. Not Gwar' 'America Must Be Destroyed' but by the other album I picked up that morning. 'Cop Killer' from the Body Count debut would raise some cain as America feared a song more innocent then a song about killing ones mother would destroy the minds of music lovers everywhere. So remember kids a cops life is more important than your mom's. They do more to protect you from the bad men and strangers with candy. Now you know and knowing is half the battle.*shakes head*

Nov 10 - Nov 16

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

AC/DC – Backtracks
Amon Amarth – Versus The World (deluxe reissue)
Anthrax – Among the Living (deluxe reissue)
Anthrax – Caught In A Mosh: BBC Live In Concert (not sure why it is play only at the time I post this)
Coalesce – Ox ep
Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back
Gwar – America Must Be Destroyed (deluxe reissue) (original pressing on the Marketplace. No new tracks anyway the big sell is the album with a reissue of two of their DVD's included for one low price)
Iron Maiden – Collectors Box (3 disc set of interviews and such from my understanding don't think it has any music)
Katatonia – Night Is The New Day
King Diamond – House of God (remaster) (Not sure why marketplace keeps putting these albums under the original release year)
King Diamond – Voodoo (remaster) (Here we have an entry for this year and the original year saying it is a reissue, you got me audiophiles why they are doing this)
Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough
Outbreak – Outbreak
These Are They – Who Linger (ep with two tracks from this album available on marketplace if you wish to check 'em out)
Throwdown – Deathless
Unearth – The March (deluxe reissue) (original pressing on marketplace)
Witchmaster - Trucizna

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Nothing of interest this week. All stuff listed is coming out next Tuesday, without a domestic release date, etc etc etc

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Nov 3 - Nov 9

Yer Funeral — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:43:11 GMT

This week we get an answer to an age old question. Not really but it has crossed my mind now and then.

It has been 7 years (11 years since a full length record) since The Genitorturers have released an album while Morbid Angel has left us 6 years waiting for that evasive 'I' album. Since it was announced David Vincent had rejoined Morbid Angel some of us wondered what that meant for the band he has with his wife and we got kind of an answer this week with Genitorturers beating Morbid to the punch. Morbid Angel though has an enhanced reissue of what is my personal favorite death metal record of all time, Blessed Are The Sick! If you have missed this album you are missing a classic that showed that death metal really had no boundaries.

Oh yeah some guys in a band called Slayer and Morbid Angel contemporaries Nile have new albums this week too. =) Hypocrisy, Halford, and Epica have solid releases too. Looking forward to downloading the others I haven't heard yet and checking them out.

Nov 3 - Nov 9

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

11^th Hour – Burden of Grief
Arkona – Goi Rode Goi
Defiance – The Prophecy
Epica – Design Your Universe
Geist – Galeere
Genitorturers – Blackheart Revolution
Halford – III: Winter Songs
Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are The Sick (enhanced reissue) (think original version available in marketplace)
Nile – Those Whom The Gods Detest
Nocturnal Fear – Metal of Honor
Oppressor – The Solstice of Agony and Corrosion
Savage Messiah – Insurrection Rising
Shadow Gallery – Digital Ghosts
Slayer – World Painted Blood
Various Artists – Grind Madness At The BBC
Various Artists – Swedish Death Metal (3 CD showcase of early Swedish death metal)
We Came As Romans – To Plant A Seed

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Sybreed – Pulse of Awakening (Dec 1?)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Tell me you know Misha Mansoor

MightyShmuggah — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:59:20 GMT

Bulb! The man, the legend, the Djentilator! Periphery got signed to sumerian; prettty exciting. Check them out and let me know what you think; i know for a fact many will bash the clean vocals, which is fine. www.myspace.com/periphery

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Oct 27 - Nov 2

Yer Funeral — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:22:04 GMT

Well this is the tide over week until next week with the official release of the new Slayer. Metal Blade seems to have become the new Nuclear Blast. After that label returned Metal Blade has become noticeably absent in the last 2 weeks with 3 and The Red Chord joining The Destro' recent release unavailable to buy/pass.

P.S. Progheads get your torches out and storm the music content subforum about 3 and Transatlantic. I know you want to! =)

Oct 27 - Nov 2

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

3 – Revisons
Agathodaimon – Phoenix
Atreyu – Congregation of the Damned
Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect
Bride - Tsar Bomba
Faith No More – Epic and Other Hits (reissue)
Few Against Many – Sot
Graveworm – Diabolical Figures
Hackneyed – Burn After Reaping
Ideamen – May You Live In Interesting Times
Pelican – What We All Come To Need
Pyramids With Nadja – Pyramids With Nadja
Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Red Shore – Unconsecrated
Satan's Host – Power, Purity, Perfection
Saviours – Accelerated Living
Theatre of Tragedy – Forever Is The World
Transatlantic – The Whirlwind
Vreid – Milorg
Winger - Karma

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Bring Me The Horizon – Suicide Season (enhanced reissue) (Nov 17)
Hollenthon – Tyrants & Wraiths (Nov 17)
Katatonia – Night Is The New Day (Nov 10)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Oct 20 - Oct 26

Yer Funeral — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:08:45 GMT

To sum up this week Rammstein continues to stay away from the marketplace while Nuclear Blast makes a return with the newest from Belphegor and Scar Symmetry available for Zune Pass download/sale. Here is to hoping the labels other recent releases slowly get added to the marketplace. Otherwise it is another great week of new music with 10 new releases available for Zune Pass subscribers to check out and only the SAW VI soundtrack having to straight out buy.

Oct 20-26

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Atlus Moth – A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky
Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites: Hexenwahn
Converge – Axe To Fall
Fu Manchu – Signs of Infinite Power
Gwen Stacy – A Dialogue
Holy Terror – Terror & Submission/Mind Wars (2 album remaster) (available in separate downloads of original pressings)
Incite – The Slaughter
Naam – Naam
Portal – Swarth
Rammstein – Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions
Secrets of The Moon – Privilegivm
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder
Soil – Picture Perfect
Various Artists – Saw VI soundtrack
White Mice - Ganjahovahdose

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity (Nov 3)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Oct 13 - Oct 19

Yer Funeral — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:11:31 GMT

I do not have much to say this week. 7 new releases and 2 King Diamond reissues are available for Zune pass subscribers while only one new release would have to be purchased. Not a bad week.

Oh and for whatever reason the King Diamond reissues were giving their original release year; so if you are looking for them, look there. BTW the reissues are Zune pass down-loadable while the original issued releases you have to buy for some reason, for you audiophiles, they are easily recognizable though because the newer releases have brighter artwork.

Oct 13-19

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Ascended – Temple of Dark Offerings
Baroness – Blue Record
Destro – Harmony of Discord
Destruction – Curse of the Antichrist: Live in Agony
Edgend – A New Identity
Future's End – Memoirs of a Broken Man
Grave Robber – Inner Sanctum
King Diamond – The Graveyard (reissue)
King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye (reissue)
Kvist – For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vikke (reissue)
Lye By Mistake – Fea Jur
Lynch Mob – Smoke & Mirrors
Marduk – Wormwood
Narnia – Course of a Generation
Psyke Project – Dead Storm
Skeletonwitch – Breathing the Fire
Skyfire – Esoteric
Those Who Lie Beneath – An Awakening

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Epica – Design Your Universe (Nov 3)
Iron Maiden – Collectors Box (Nov 10)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellow Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Oct 06 - Oct 12

Yer Funeral — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:14:07 GMT

This week most of the proper new releases are available in the Marketplace. Mostly just reissues still stayed away as they weren't available in the first place for the most part.

Some stuff added this week unfortunately you have to pay for even if you have the Zune pass. This is still a positive though because they are still available here and eases the pain if for some reason you have stockpiled MS points since they can't be used over at say, Amazon. Gist of the story always nice to have choices and like seeing it at least available.

Another trend I am noticing, Nuclear Blast again keeps its new releases out of the Marketplace. Sad to see this but they still aren't pulling older releases so this is a positive. Hopefully newer Nuclear Blast stuff will return eventually to being added on release day and these recent releases added.

Oct 06 - Oct 12

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Ancestors – Of Sound Mind
Arch Enemy – Root of all Evil
Axxis – Utopia
Blessthefall – Witness
Fear Factory – Hatefiles (remastered digipac) (f.y.i. unlike repackaged previous digipac FF releases this seems to not have any new tracks)
Horse The Band – Desperate Living
Immortal – All Shall Fall
Isis – Celestial (reissue)
Keel – Right to Rock (reissue)
Kiss – Sonic Boom (f.y.i. in case you didn't know Wal-mart replaces Best Buy as the Kiss dealer)
Motorhead – Burner: Best of
Obsession – Methods of Madness (reissue)
Obsession – Scarred for Life (reissue)
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
The Psychics - Psychics
Raunchy – Confusion Bay (reissue)
Raunchy – Velvet Noise (reissue)
Redemption – Snowfall on Judgment Day
Scorpions – Pure Instinct (reissue)
The Sign of The Southern Cross – Of Mountains and Moonshine
Steel Panther – Feel The Steel
U.D.O. - Dominator
Ventana – American Survival Guide Vol. 1

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Red Shore – Unconsecrated (Oct 27)
Various Artists – Grind Madness At The BBC (Nov 3)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Sep 29-Oct05

Yer Funeral — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:58:03 GMT

After last weeks initial lack of Zune Marketplace content (some stuff was added during the week so check Marketplace if something from last weeks list fancied you it may have been added) we seem to be back in the offending parents business. 14 releases this week in varying styles of loudness. Good week to pick up a Zune pass or try for 14 days if you haven't already.

Sep 29-Oct05

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Ahab – The Divinity of Oceans
Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal
Azaghal – Teraphim
Black Cobra – Chronomega
Bleeding Fist – Beastial Kruzifix666ion
Dethklok – Dethalbum II
Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood and Thunder
Hatebreed – Hatebreed
Javelina – Beasts Among Sheep
Leaves Eyes – Njord
Melvins – Chicken Switch
One Without – Thoughts of a Secluded Mind
Primordial – A Journey's End (reissue with bonus disc)
Revocation – Existence is Futile
Revolting Cocks – Sex-o Mixx-o
Satyricon – The Age of Nero (enhanced reissue digipac with bonus stuff) ZUNE Marketplace only has the original release
Syrach – A Dark Burial

missed last week:

Parkway Drive – Horizons (deluxe reissue)

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions (Oct 20)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Need some new music...

Evil Merlin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:42:47 GMT

Recommend me some good metal.

No screamcore. God I hate that stuff. Its ruining music almost as bad as rap is.

No melodic metal. It just doesn't do it for me.

Stuff I like? Look at my Zune profile. Thrash metal... you know Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, The Sword, Overkill, Testament, Savatage, Pantera, HellYeah, Tree, etc. all those bands are good, and the music just works...

So now I need more of the same...

Suggestions?

Anyone else not impressed with the new Megadeth?

Evil Merlin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:24:38 GMT

I picked it up on release day. I honestly don't think its a bit different from United Abominations, which really wasn't all that good either.

I've been listening to Megadeth since 1985 (Killing is my Business), and find them getting very trying now with the albums of the last 3-4 years...

August Burns Red Thrill Seeker

ToxicVampire — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:41:31 GMT

I noticed that the Marketplace has two versions of the album. What, if any, is the difference between the two. I noticed one has an Untitled Track but it says it's unavailable. If they're both the same, are they both 320kbps? Thanks for the help.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Sep 22-28

Yer Funeral — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:28:38 GMT

This week follows the pace of the month with a lot of releases but only a select few available in the Zune Marketplace as I post this. Imports section gives you a good glimpse of the stuff coming the first week of October.

Sep 22-28

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

A Storm of Light – Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Children of Bodom – Skeletons in the Closet
Crucifist – Demon-Haunted World
Despised Icon – Day of Mourning
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Sing-Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious
Echoes of Eternity – As Shadows Burn
Evile – Infected Nations
Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
Insomnium – Across The Dark
Obituary – Darkest Day (enhanced version)
Ruiner – Hell is Empty
Sonata Arctica – The Days of Grays (Zune only has a single posted at this point)
Sopor Aeternus – Es Riten Die Toten So Schnell (The Vampire Sucking At His Own Vein)
Subarachnoid Space – Eight Bells
Temple of Brutality – Lethal Agenda (reissue)
Transitional – Stomach of the Sun
Vader – Necropolis (Zune only has a single posted at this point)
Vicious Rumors – Soldiers of the Night (reissue)
Visceral Bleeding – Transcend Into Ferocity (reissue)

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Arch Enemy – Root of all Evil (Oct 6)
Destruction – Curse of the Antichrist: Live in Agony (Oct 13)
Holy Terror – Terror & Submission/Mind Wars (2 album remaster) (Oct 20)
Immortal – All Shall Fall (Oct 6)
Obsession – Methods of Madness (reissue) (Oct 6)
Obsession – Scarred for Life (reissue) (Oct 6)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter at my station and thought I would include it here to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Sep 15-21 (Final edition)

Yer Funeral — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:00:02 GMT

Changes from the special early edition, added bold to titles available on Zune Marketplace (a lucky 13 releases including Dying Fetus, first thing I have seen come up from Relapse Records in the Marketplace in a long while) and added Porcupine Tree which I had missed when I hurried to put out the early list. Enjoy your music!

Sep 15-21

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Sep 15-21

69 Eyes – Back In Blood
After The Burial – Rareform (reissue)
Anvil – This Is Thirteen (reissue with bonus track)
Armed For Apocalypse – Defeat
Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
Chthonic – Mirror of Retribution
Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
It Dies Today – Lividity
Kittie – In The Black
Megadeth – Endgame
Ministry – The Last Dubber
Network – Bishop Kent Manning
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Protest The Hero – Gallop Meets The Earth
Shadows Fall – Retribution (regular and limited editions)
Skinlab – The Scars Between Us
Texas In July – I Am

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Atlus Moth – A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky (Oct 6)
Few Against Many – Sot (Oct 27)
Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood and Thunder (Sep 29)
Otargos – F*** God : Disease Process (Oct 6)
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us - Deaths Unites Us (Oct 6)
Theatre of Tragedy – Forever Is The World (Oct 27)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter and thought I include it to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

New Slayer

SlayerRules99 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:57:47 GMT

Who is looking forward to it? I heard Psychopath Red and it was ok, not great. I love Slayer, but I'm afraid their best years are behind them.

Special early edition: Hard Rock and Metal releases for Sep 15 - 21

Yer Funeral — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:36:42 GMT

Since the forum will be down, for who knows how long, starting on the 14th I thought I would post this early without the Zune Marketplace stuff in bold and give you an idea what to get during your lunch break, before/after work, or download next Tuesday while waiting for Zune to get back online:

Sep 15-21

69 Eyes – Back In Blood
After The Burial – Rareform (reissue)
Anvil – This Is Thirteen (reissue with bonus track)
Armed For Apocalypse – Defeat
Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
Chthonic – Mirror of Retribution
Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
It Dies Today – Lividity
Kittie – In The Black
Megadeth – Endgame
Ministry – The Last Dubber
Network – Bishop Kent Manning
Protest The Hero – Gallop Meets The Earth
Shadows Fall – Retribution (regular and limited editions)
Skinlab – The Scars Between Us
Texas In July – I Am

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Atlus Moth – A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky (Oct 6)
Few Against Many – Sot (Oct 27)
Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood and Thunder (Sep 29)
Otargos – F*** God : Disease Process (Oct 6)
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us - Deaths Unites Us (Oct 6)
Theatre of Tragedy – Forever Is The World (Oct 27)

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Sep 8 - 14

Yer Funeral — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:33:05 GMT

Sep 8-14

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

16 Volt – American Porn Songs
Abrogation – Das Blut Der Toten (reissue)
Alkemyst – Meeting in the Mist (reissue)
April Wine – Live in London
Burden of Grief – Haunting Requiems (remaster with bonus tracks)
Celan – Halo
Duskfall – Lifetime Supply of Guilt (reissue)
Eden's Curse – Eden's Curse (reissue)
Eden's Curse – Second Coming (reissue)
Eden's Curse – Seven Deadly Sins (reissue)
Ensiferum – From Afar
Gnaw Their Tongues – All The Dread Magnificence of Perversity
Hyades – The Roots of Thrash
Kovenant – Animatronik (reissue)
Kovenant – Nexus Polaris (reissue)
Kovenant – Seti (reissue)
Lock 13 – Inner Enemy
Misery Index – Retaliate (reissue)
Slipknot – Slipknot (10^th anniversary special edition)
Spartan Warrior – Spartan Warrior (reissue)
Threat Signal - Vigilance
Three Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
Torch – Dark Sinner (after 20 years they are back)
Vardis – Qo Vardis (reissue)
Various Artists – The Best Metallica Tribute Album in the World Ever
Warlord UK – Maximum Carnage (reissue)
White Whizzard – High Speed GTO

Import now or wait until later to get in US

There was over a hundred items this week between domestic and import and had no time to research the details of all the import stuff. For some reason this month is looking like a glut of hard rock and metal releases, new and old. I don't know why but I know my Zune is going to be busy and extremely happy.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Sep 1 - 7

Yer Funeral — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:32:14 GMT

Sep 1-7

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Amon Amarth – The Crusher (reissue with bonus live tracks)
Black Anvil – Time Insults The Mind (reissue)
Dirge Within – Force Fed Lies
The Used - Artwork

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Gotthard – Need To Believe (Sep 22)

missed last week:

Ghost Brigade – Isolation Songs
Hardcore Superstar – Beg For It
Korpiklaani – Karkelo
Laudanum – The Coronation
Merrimack – Grey Rigorism
Oh, Sleeper – Son of the Morning
Viatrophy - Viatrophy

Hard Rock and Metal releases for August 25 - 31

Yer Funeral — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:23:48 GMT

Aug 25-31

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Awaken Demons – The Mirror
Caliban – Say Hello to Tragedy
Canis Dirus – A Somber Wind From A Distant Shore
Liturgy - Renihilation
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive
Sacred Oath – Sacred Oath
Slauter Xstroyes – Winter Kill (reissue)
Tenet - Sovereign
UFO – Headstone (reissue)

Import now or wait until later to get in US

69 Eyes – Back in Blood (Sep 15) (Single available on Zune right now, 'Dead Girls Are Easy')
Cain's Offering – Gather The Faithful (Sep 15) (Power metal supergroup)
Chthonic – Mirror of Retribution (Sep 8)
Leaves' Eyes – Njord (Sep 29)
Motorhead – Burner: Best Of (Oct 6)
Three Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom (Sep 8)

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Aug 18 - 24

Yer Funeral — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:47:26 GMT

Aug 18-24

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

At War – Infidel
Burnt By The Sun – Heart of Darkness
Emmure – Felony
Gwar – Lust In Space
Keelhaul – Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity
Landmine Marathon – Rusted Eyes Awake (reissue)
Otep – Smash the Control Machine

Missed last week

Forest Stream – The Crown of Winter
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War
Your Demise - Ignorance Never Dies

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Diamond Head – MCA Years (3 disc set, no domestic release but may be worth hunting down)
Gojira – Terra Incognita (reissue) (still not easily available in states but new printing should drop import prices)
Horse The Band – Desperate Living (Oct 6)
Vader - Necropolis (Sep 22)
Whiplash – Unborn Again (they are back after 10 years, no domestic release date yet)

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Aug 11 - 17

Yer Funeral — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:25:47 GMT

Aug 11 - 17

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Abyss – The Other Side/Summon the Beast (2 disc reissue)
Artillery – When Death Comes
Avenger – Killer Elite (reissue)
Behemoth – Evangelion
Bloody Panda – Summon
Dead Swans – Sleepwalkers
Devil's Blood – I'll Be Your Ghost
Europe – Last Look at Eden
Marduk – Nightwing (reissue)
Sinister – Cross the Styx (reissue)
Sinister – Diabolical Summonings (reissue)
Sinister – Hate/*** Saints (2 disc reissue)
Sinner - Judgement Day (reissue)
Sinner – The Nature of Evil (reissue)
Sinner – There Will Be Execution (reissue)
Steel Prophet – Unseen (reissue)
Swashbuckle – Back To The Noose
Susperia – Predominance/Vindication (2 disc reissue)
Tysondog – Crimes of Insanity (reissue)
Vertigo - The Coming and Going

Import now or wait until later to get in US

all this weeks listings from my sources were for stuff available next week, reissues, vinyl only reissues, or stuff without a domestic release date at this time

Hard Rock and Metal releases for Aug 4 - 10

Yer Funeral — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:59:59 GMT

Aug 4 - 10

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Coffins – Mortuary In Darkness (reissue)
The Creatures – I, Lucifer (CA metal band not to be confused with the Siouxsie Sioux project though found on their page in the Zune Marketplace)
Gravehill – Rites of the Pentagram
Greymachine - Disconnected
Man Must Die – No Tolerance For Imperfection
Nightrage – Wearing A Martyr's Crown
Ocean – Fluxion (reissue)
Sigh – Scorn Defeat (reissue)
Thrill of a Gunfight – The Struggle, The Rebirth, The Beginning Anew

Import now or wait until later to get in US

all of this weeks listings from my sources were for stuff available next week, reissues, or stuff released in the states earlier this year in the states.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for July 28-Aug3

Yer Funeral — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:54:32 GMT

Sorry for the delay had formatting issues and ran out of time this morning but here it is:

July 28 - Aug 3

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Ahab – The Divinity of Oceans
Atrocity – Calling the Rain (reissue)
Atrocity – Werk 80 (reissue)
Death Angel – Sonic German Beatdown
Disarray – Edge of my Demise
Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
Flesh Made Sin – The Aftermath of Amen
Gorod – Process of a New Decline
Hiems – Worship or Die
Iron Monkey – Iron Monkey/Our Problem (packaged together reissue)
Leaves Eyes – My Destiny
Mind Odyssey – Keep It All Turning
Mind Odyssey – Nailed to the Shade (reissue)
Mind Odyssey – Schizophenia (reissue)
Mind Odyssey – Signs (reissue)
Nazxul - Iconoclast
Vertigo – Coming and the Going

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Ghost Brigade – Isolation Songs (Aug 25)
Syrach – A Dark Burial (Sep 22)
Tenet – Sovereign (Aug 11) (Jed Simon' (Zimmer's Hole/SYL) project almost 15 years in the making, now a metal supergroup with Zimmer's cohorts, Steve Sousa (Dublin Death Patrol/Exodus), and Glen Avelais (Forbidden/Testament))
Vardis – Quo Vardis (Sep 9)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter and thought I include it to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for July 21-27

Yer Funeral — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:08:31 GMT

July 21-27

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Alabaster Suns – Alabaster Suns
Atheist – Unquestionable Presence: Live at Wacken
City of Ships – Look What God did to us
Colin of Arabia – Pain Machines
Culted – Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep
Destruction of a Rose – Suspended in Time
Dynazty – Bring the Thunder
Eagle Twin – The Unkindness of Crows
El Duce – Slave to thy Master: Revamped & Revisited (reissue w/ bonus tracks)
For The Fallen Dreams – Relentless
Hands - Creator
Heroshima – Through Hell & High Water
Knives Exchanging Hands – The War of Speech, the Weapon of Words
L'acephale - Malefeasance
Memphis May Fire – Sleepwalking
Modern Day Massacre – House of Rats
Motley Crue – Live: Entertainment or Death (reissue)
Thornafire – Vorex Destruccion
Valkyrja – The Invocation of Demise

Import now or wait until later to get in US

Swashbuckle – Back to the Noose (Aug 11)

Disclaimer: These may or may not get added to Zune and may be removed from the service at any time. The above is simply a list I compile every week to help with dj chatter and thought I include it to let my fellower Zuners know of recent hard rock/metal releases. In no way does it reflect every release just those listed in various sources I use to compile the list. As always items are subject to change.

Hard Rock and Metal releases for July 14 - 20

Yer Funeral — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:44 GMT

July 14-20

All titles in bold are available in one form or another on Zune marketplace at the time when I post this

Acid Drinkers – High Proof Cosmic Milk (reissue)
Acid Drinkers – The State of Mind Report (reissue)
Acid Drinkers – Varran Strikes Back – Alive (reissue)
Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Arkaea – Years in the Darkness (featuring Christian and Raymond from Fear Factory with Jon and Pat from Threat Signal)
Arsonists Get All The Girls – Portals
August Burns Red – Constellations
Ava Inferi – Blood of Bacchus
Destroyer 666 – Defiance
Destroyers – The Miseries of Virtue
Devildriver – Pray for Villians
Disgorge – Parallels of Infinite Torture (reissue)
Drudkh - Microcosmos
Gnostic – Engineering the Rule
Guru Guru – Tango Fango (reissue)
Hate – Litanies of Satan (reissue)
Judas Priest – A Touch of Evil: Live
Karma To Burn – Live in London & Chasing the Dragon
Nadja/Black Boned Angel – Nadja/Black Boned Angel
Nazareth – Broken Down Angels/The Early Years (reissue)
Ninetail – Half Truths and Hand Grenades
Novembre – Classica (reissue)
Sacrificial Suicide – Spontaneous Suicide
Shakra – Everest
Thunder – Backstreet Symphony (reissue)
Thunder – Laughing on Judgement Day (reissue)
Suffocation – Blood Oath
UFO – The Official Boot Leg Set
Various Artists – Masters of Rock and Metal
Warrior Soul – Destroy The War Machine
We Were Gentlemen – Living Hell
The World We Knew – To The World
Yob – The Great Cessation

Import now or wait until later to get in US

There was so many albums to research coming out domesticly haven't gotten to looking into imports yet will try and do that later